"--passphrase-fd n" not working

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Thu Oct 4 13:44:02 2001


pd <pd4953@myrealbox.com> writes:


> --enable-special-filenames
> This options enables a mode in which filenames
> of the form -&n, where n is a non-negative deci­
> mal number, refer to the file descriptor n and
> not to a file with that name.
Hmm, I wonder why this note is necessary. Can't you use /dev/fd/n instead (and the same magic in GnuPG to make it work)?